Betty Gravlin, author of free e-books at Barnes and Noble and Smashwords.com.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

U.S. archbishop at Vatican says Democrats becoming 'party of death'By Cindy WoodenThe Democratic Party in the United States "risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death,'" said U.S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Vatican's highest court.http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0804933.htm

Presidential Voter Guide at kitchentableblogInvestigate the presidential candidates with our in-depth research and analysis on all the important Values Voter issues. From bioethics, marriage and family law to judicial and religious liberty issues, our policy experts present this valuable guide.http://www.kitchentableblog.com/EF08H02.pdf

The pro-bailout view:Recent Market Commentary From FidelityInsight on Government Rescue PlanSeptember 29, 2008The first lesson learned throughout the history of financial crises is that when financial markets simply stop working on their own, the government may be the only backstop available to prevent a systemic financial collapse that jeopardizes the entire economy.http://personal.fidelity.com/misc/framesets/iw.shtml

The anti-bailout view:Commentary: Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answerBy Jeffrey A. MironSo what should the government do? Eliminate those policies that generated the current mess. This means, at a general level, abandoning the goal of home ownership independent of ability to pay. This means, in particular, getting rid of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with policies like the Community Reinvestment Act that pressure banks into subprime lending.http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/miron.bailout/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Bailout marks Karl Marx's comebackBy Martin MasseIn his Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Karl Marx proposed 10 measures to be implemented after the proletariat takes power, with the aim of centralizing all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Proposal Number Five was to bring about the “centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.”http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/09/29/bailout-marks-karl-marx-s-comeback.aspx

Watch this video on YouTubeIt's about who tried to prevent this problem and who helped to cause it. (OK. I'll spoil the ending a tell you. McCain tried to fix this mess years ago. Obama helped create it.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxgSubmiGt8